How Do You Handle Student LinkedIn Invitations?

I wanted to invite you into a Twitter discussion I was having about an issue that most career services professionals have probably had to deal with this at some point: How do you handle LinkedIn connection requests from students?

To me, the fundamental question comes down to whether a LinkedIn connection to a career services professional provides a real added benefit to students. If it does, then I would argue that benefit MUST be extended (or denied) equally to ALL students. If it doesn’t, then it is simply a matter of personal preference.

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I would have also chosen accept students that I know well. The problem that I’m discovering now that I’ve moved on from my first institution is that I have a lot of students from that school, in my network, and they are not necessarily an active or contributing part of my network.

Not really anything negative, but I struggle to make them an active part of my network, and I wish there was a better way to separate them from the components of my network that relate to my own career development